Vietnam must not become a dumping ground for other countries’ scrap, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has warned.

“Authorities need to work in co-ordination to stop scrap from entering Vietnam and affecting the environment and people’s lives,” he said at a meeting of the government’s standing committee on importing scrap Wednesday.

The EU is in a desperate search for a sustainable circular economy. But critics warn that the imminent adoption of waste recycling targets for 2035 is only a compromise between the very different realities of the 28 countries. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Canadians for Tax Fairness says it is estimated that Canada loses at least $7.8 billion in revenues every year because of tax dodging facilitated by tax havens.

Ottawa (23 September 2016) — There is a powerful Bahamian connection in the mess that is Canada’s offshore tax haven epidemic, says Canadians for Tax Fairness (CTF). Now, a new leak(link is external) to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and media reports are blowing its cover.

Leak shows Canadian banks helped set up offshore companies

The Toronto Star(link is external) and the CBC report(link is external) that 3 of Canada’s top banks have enabled the formation of nearly 2,000 offshore companies and private foundations in the Bahamas. Analysts are quick to point out that not every transaction with a tax haven breaks the law. But tax fairness watchdogs have long warned that Canada has a series of tax treaties with some of the most secretive jurisdictions in the world.

“It just doesn’t make sense,” Richard Leblanc, a leading corporate governance expert and professor at Harvard and York universities told the Toronto Star(link is external). “Why are there so many companies registered and such a high volume in a jurisdiction that doesn’t have the population base or the economy to support it? That’s a legitimate question.”

PARIS – Prosecutors have asked a French court to send the country’s former budget minister to prison for tax fraud and set an example of a necessary fight against a “world plague.”The two-week trial of Jerome Cahuzac on charges of tax fraud and money laundering ended Thursday in a Paris court. The judge set a December 8 date for the verdict.During closing arguments, France’s top financial prosecutor, Eliane Houlette, asked the court to sentence Cahuzac to three years in prison for inflicting a “major harm to France,” ”tarnishing its image,” ”withering its honour” and “making it the laughing stock of the entire world.”Cahuzac, a 64-year-old former cosmetic surgeon, is accused of hiding his wealth in tax havens around the world at the same time he was leading the government’s fight against tax evasion. He was forced to resign in 2013.

The government wasted £1.9 million on “phantom” deportations last year by booking seats on planes for failed asylum seekers who then never showed up.The bill, which was incurred by the Home Office under Theresa May’s watch, was higher than at any time in the previous three years.The seats were booked when someone failed to be granted asylum but then left empty after the person in question launched an appeal.